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 lifting a pitcher of water out of the dam, ſo as he  it full and ſet it down on the ground, ſtaring at me he tumbled in himſelf out of ſight o'er head and ears, and  ſoon as he got out I ſaid, Yo ho friend, did you get  fiſh? What an a fiſh, ye b--h; O ſaid I, I thought had ſeen a fiſh when you jumped in to make it jump : what a d---l ſir, are you mocking me? runs round pitcher, and gives me a kick on the a-ſe, ſo that I fell  on his pitcher, and it tumbled down the bank,  went to pieces, his maſter and another man looking  laughing at us, the poor fellow complained of me to, but got no ſatisfaction.

The ſame evening, as I was going towards the town Linlithgow, meets an old crabbed fellow riding upon  old glaid mare, which he always a threſhing upon  his ſtick; goode'en to you goodman, ſaid I, are you  to the bull wi' your mare? what do you ſay ſir, they to the bull wi' a cow ye brute. O yes goodman, ye right, ſaid I, but how do they call that he-beaſt that  on the mare's backs; they ca't a cuſſer ſir, a well  goode'en to you maſter cuſſar. He rides a little bit, turns back in a rage, ſaying I ſay ſir, your laſt words  war then your firſt, he came then at the flight; to ride  down, but I ſtruck his beaſt on the face, and in the  turn about, it fell, yet or I could get my pack to the, he cutted me on the head at the firſt ſtroke, I  getting clear of the pack, played it away for ſome , till by blows on the face, I made him blood at both  and noſe; then he cried out chapman, we are  daft, for we'll kill ourſeles and mak naething o't, we  better gree; with all my heart, ſaid I, and what will  buy? nothing but a pair of beard ſhears ſaid he, and me them cheap, ſo I ſold him a pair of ſhears for  half pence, and gave him a needle, then parted good  after the battle was over.

So I went to Linlithgow that night, where I met with Drouthy Tom my ſweet and dear companion, and here